Bar Convent
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Education | Mary Ann Radcliffe | After a strong religious grounding at home, and after the idea of placing her in a French convent was abandoned because of the Seven Years War, MAR
received a good education at the Bar Convent |
| Reception | Mary Ward | In the aftermath of the French Revolution, nuns at the Bar Convent
, York, selectively burned manuscripts by and about MW
. They were anxious, having only just learned of a Papal Bull against... |
Timeline
5 November 1686
Mother Frances Bedingfield
(using, for safety, the alias Frances Long) signed the contract for the purchase of property on the site of the present Bar Convent
in York, to use as a girls' school
.
22 August 1748
The nuns of the Bar Convent
at York were issued with notice to quit by this date, in conformity with the anti-Catholic penal laws, by York cathedral cleric Dr Jacques Sterne
.
1814
With encouragement from the Archbishop of Dublin, Francis Ball
returned to the Bar Convent
at York (where she had been a pupil) as a novice, with the purpose of qualifying herself to improve the...